I realized today a) I've forgotten I have a livejournal and b) I've forgotten how embarassing this thing is. I mean, like, three of the last twenty posts are in support of Ron Paul. What am I, a goddamn lunatic ( Read more... )

Wearing a tux (or just getting snazzy, in general) has the effect of making an ordinary gathering memorable. It's the preparation. Getting dressed up and then going to do something... I mean, sure, I probably would have remembered my brother's wife dislocating her knee on the dance floor, but she was in her WEDDING DRESS at the time. When I ( Read more... )

EXT. DESERT ROAD - DAY ( Read more... )

Man, that Reverend Wright scandal sure did blow up in Hilary's face. Her campaign tries to stir up simpleminded, race-baiting controversy and Obama delivers one of the most eloquent treatises on race in our time since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://my.barackobama.com ( Read more... )

So I killed on Monday. Probably the best reaction I've gotten, honestly, since I've started doing this again. It was all material I'd written the day of and the day before (mostly because this dude still has my notebook from the fucking fourth of February and still hasn't given it back). Fresher in my mind, and I was less attached to any kind of ( Read more... )

I don't know much about Mr. Sedaris (although I'm looking at a bunch of videos after this one. "Six to Eight Black Men" I'm finding particularly wonderful), but I thought this was pretty great.

David Sedaris delivers a pizza:

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I've come up with this new mini-character that I use to deliver one-liners for my routine. I pretend to be a lower-middle- ( Read more... )

Here's something not good.

It's not good when you look in your fishbowl, see a dead fish and go "Lucky him."

That ain't right.

Man, s'been a while since I wrote in this thing. Much to everyone's relief ( Read more... )

I'm seriously considering popping a Xanex on show days. Those are anti-anxiety pills, right? I dunno. I love doing standup and all, but on the day leading up to a show I'm nauseous and keyed up all day and it's just uncomfortable. It'd be nice to somehow avoid that ( Read more... )

Joey owed some money ( Read more... )